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Latin numerals
Latin numerals are the Roman numeral signs (I, V, X, L, C, D, M) used in written Latin, an additive base-10 system with a subbase of 5 from about 500 BCE, with Etruscan tally-mark origins and a later subtractive form.
Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem
The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, also known as the Latin Catholic Patriarchate of Jerusalem, is the Catholic diocese covering Israel, Palestine, Jordan, and Cyprus, restored in 1847.
Latin phonology and orthography
Latin phonology and orthography: the sound system and spelling of Latin, its alphabet adopted via Etruscan mediation, Old Latin spelling changes, the loss of vowel quantity, and the Classical, Ecclesiastical, and national pronunciation traditions distinguished by features such as v as /w/ versus /v/.
Latin pop
Latin pop (pop latino, pop en español) is Spanish- or Portuguese-language pop music blending mainstream pop songcraft with Latin American rhythms. US-market genre tag from the 1990s; late-1990s crossover boom; 363.2 billion global streams in early 2026.
Latin rock
Latin rock (rock latino) is a genre fusing rock with Latin American and Caribbean rhythms and languages, named around Santana in 1971 after Carlos Santana's 1969 breakthrough, with 1950s Chicano precursors and a 1990s US "Latin Alternative" marketing wave.
Latin script
Latin script, also called the Roman alphabet, is the writing system derived from a Greek script by the Romans and now used to write hundreds of languages worldwide.
Latin square
A Latin square, or row-column design, is an n × n array of n symbols, each appearing exactly once in every row and column, named for Euler's Latin letters.
Latin translations of the 12th century
The Latin translations of the 12th century rendered over 200 scientific and philosophical works from Arabic and Greek into Latin. Gerard of Cremona was a principal translator.
Latina, Lazio
Latina (formerly Littoria) is a foundation town in Lazio, Italy, inaugurated 18 December 1932 after the Pontine Marsh reclamation; provincial capital since 1934, renamed Latina in 1945, second Lazio city after Rome with about 128,000 residents.
Latine
Latine (lah-TEE-nay) is a gender-neutral alternative to Latino and Latina, formed with the Spanish -e suffix, first recorded in 2017, used in U.S. academia and Latin America, and known to only 18% of U.S. Hispanics, unlike Latinx.
Latino (demonym)
Latino is a U.S. demonym for people of Latin American origin or descent, paired with Hispanic in the federal "Hispanic or Latino" category since 1997; it includes Brazil but not Spain, and most prefer "Hispanic".
Latino Orsini
Latino Orsini (1410 or 1411 – 1477) was an Italian cardinal of the Orsini family and Archbishop of Trani who took part in four papal conclaves, helping elect Sixtus IV in 1471.
Latino World Order
Latino World Order (LWO), a Latino-identity wrestling stable parodying the nWo: founded by Eddie Guerrero in WCW on October 5, 1998, revived by Rey Mysterio on WWE SmackDown on March 31, 2023 with Legado del Fantasma.
Latins (Italic tribe)
The Latins (Latini) were an Indo-European people of Latium vetus in central Italy, organized in the Latin League, allied with Rome by the foedus Cassianum of 493 BC, and absorbed after the Latin War of 340-338 BC.
Latinus (crater on Dione)
Latinus is a 130-km impact crater on Saturn's moon Dione at 52.19N, 201.00, IAU-approved in 2008 and named after the Aeneid's King of Latium; it titles the Sd-4 Latinus Region atlas quadrangle.
Latinx
Latinx is a gender-neutral alternative to Latino/Latina for people of Latin American descent, coined from latino/latina plus x (first known use 2007). Awareness among U.S. Hispanics reached 47% in 2023, but only 4% use it and 81% prefer Hispanic or Latino.
Latissimus dorsi flap reconstruction
The latissimus dorsi flap transfers the fan-shaped latissimus dorsi muscle of the back, usually with a skin paddle, to reconstruct breast and chest wall defects.
Latissimus dorsi muscle
Latissimus dorsi, the broad flat back muscle (lats) spanning T6 to S5 and inserting on the humerus; thoracodorsal nerve and vessels; widely used as a flap in reconstructive surgery and for rotator cuff tendon transfer.
Latite
Latite is a volcanic rock made of roughly equal alkali feldspar and sodic plagioclase with little or no quartz, making it the extrusive equivalent of monzonite.
Latitude
Latitude is the geographic coordinate specifying a point's north–south position on Earth as an angle from 0° at the Equator to 90° at the poles, running east–west as parallels.
Latitudinarian
Latitudinarian was a term, first applied abusively at Cambridge in the early 1660s, for Anglican clergy advocating moderation, toleration, and reasoned faith; many became bishops after 1688.
Latium
Latium, ancient region of central Italy between Etruria and Campania, homeland of the Latini; Latium Vetus and Adiectum, Latin League dissolved 338 BC, Augustus' Regio I.
Latium Chasma
Latium Chasma is a 360-km-long branching trough system (chasma) on Saturn's moon Dione at 20.00°N, 63.93°W, part of the wispy terrain fractures; IAU-approved in 1982 and named after the Trojans' promised land in Virgil's Aeneid.
Latium Vetus (region)
Latium Vetus (Old Latium, Latium antiquum), the ancient homeland of the Latini between the Tiber, Anio, Apennines, and Monte Circeo, distinct from Latium Adiectum; city-states by the 6th century BCE, conquered by Rome by 300 BCE.
Latke
Latke (Yiddish; Hebrew levivah/levivot): Ashkenazi Jewish fried potato pancake of grated potato, onion, egg, and flour or matzo meal, eaten at Hanukkah for the oil miracle, with cheese-pancake origins in 14th-century Italy.
Latmikaik Corona
Latmikaik Corona, also spelled Latmikaiik Corona, is a 500 km corona on Venus at 64°S, 123°E in Henie quadrangle (V-58), named for a Palauan fertility goddess, with associated graben swarms and Tellervo Chasma.
Latna Saga: Survival of a Sword King
Latna Saga: Survival of a Sword King (이계 검왕 생존기, Survival Story of a Sword King in a Fantasy World) is a Korean fantasy webtoon by Soon-Q adapting Lim Kyung-bae's web novel about Hanbin Ryu, stuck 20 years in a bugged tutorial; serialized on KakaoPage since 2019 and Tapas since 2021, with a Studio Pierrot anime announced.
Lato
Lato (Λατώ), ancient Dorian city-state of eastern Crete near Kritsa, port at Kamara (Agios Nikolaos), best-preserved Classical-Hellenistic city, allied with Miletos and Gortyn, border disputes with Olous arbitrated by Knossos and Rome.
Lato pros Kamara
Lato pros Kamara (Λατώ η προς Καμάρα), also Kamara, was the harbor town of Cretan Lato under modern Agios Nikolaos; a 2nd-century BC port that became the area's administrative center by the mid-2nd century AD.
LaTocha Scott
LaTocha Scott (LaTocha Reney Scott-Bivens, born 1973), American R&B and gospel singer, lead vocalist of Xscape; solo albums Solo Flight 404 (2003) and The Invitation: A Conversation With God (2023); Made Girl brand founder.